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by ctpide 3495 days ago
Apple Pay is technically trying to solve this problem by providing one-time authentication keys for a specific transaction at time of payment. This sort of key can not be reused in another transaction... What exactly do you mean with other passwordless ways?
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Basically OAuth, which allows you to prove to one site (e.g. a merchant) that you have an account at another site (e.g. a bank in this case). http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns/The_Password_A...